Pan for shaping hat-brims.



No. 717 839. P 1' NT 1) JA .6 1-903 W. GLAZIER. A B N PAN FOR SHAPINGHAT BRIMS' APPLICATION FILED OGT.6, 1902.

H0 MODEL WITNESSES: mvmmm ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILL'Is GLAZIER, or NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

PAN. FOR SHAPING HAT-BRIMS.

{SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 717,839, dated.January 6, 1903. Application filed Gctober 6, 1902. Serial In. 126,003.mamas.)

To all iohom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIs GLAZIER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersoy, haveinvented and produced a new and original Improvement in Pans for ShapingHat-Brims; and I do hereby declare the fol lowing to be a full, clear,and exact descrip tion of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters ofreference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification. V

The objects of this invention are to give a more perfect and uniformshape and finish to the brims of felt hats; to facilitate the work ofshaping and finishing said brims; to avoid the necessity of ironing thesaid brims after the same have been subjected to the hot sand used inconnection with the shaping-pan, as heretofore required, and to secureother advantages and results, some of which may be referred tohereinafter in connection with the description of the working parts.

The invention consists in the improved shaping-pan for givingform orshape to brims of" felt hats and in the arrangements and combinations ofparts of the same, all substantially as will be hereinafter set forth,and

- finally embraced in the clauses of the claim.

Referring'to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters ofreference indicate corresponding parts in each of the several views,Figure 1 is a plan of the improved shapingpan. Fig. 2 is a sideelevation of the same, showing the parts of the same in the positionassumed before application to the brim, the bag of said pan being brokenaway and in partial section; and Fig. 3 is a section of the device,taken on line a; of Fig. 1, showing more clearly the parts after theyhave assumed their pressing relation to the hat and its brim upon ahat-flange underneath the pan.

In said drawings, it indicates a hat-flange centrally open to receivethe body of the hat and shaped at the top and upper parts of the sidesto give shape to the brim, and b indicates a felt hat arranged on saidflange, the brim c of said hat being turned over the upper edges of thesurfaces of said flange.

01 indicates the pan, adapted to receive the of the pan, as at h. Thesection 9 comprises a semicircular top plate 1', to the convex outer'edge of which is secured a depending side plate j, the ends or cars k kof which project horizontally beyond the chord-like edge 5 of the saidsemicircular top plate '1; to receive the pivotal pins connecting thetwo sections.

The section falso consists of a top plate and side plate. The bottomedges of the said side plates are formed on curved lines extending downward from the lower edges of the cars toward the center of the plate,the said center of the side plate being of considerable width for apurpose hereinafter described.

The section f of the pan, pivoted to the section 9, is also providedwith comparatively narrow cars, which overlap the ears-of the saidsection g, and with a wide central part or check an, lying'opposite thewide central part or cheek m of the opposite section. The top plate iofthis section f is somewhat wider than that of the said section g and isbent in lines concentric with the hinge-pins, as at 'n,

the bent flange n of the said top plate f extending underneath the topplate of section g three or four inches, more or less, so that as thesaid sections turn on the said hingepins to the position shown inoutline in Fig. 2 and in fullline in Fig. 3 there will be no openingformed at the top of the pan through which the sand may escape. At asuitable point at the top of one of said sections I have formed a mouthor feed-opening 0 to permit the inser tion of the sand,the said openingunder certain conditions being closed bya cork or other suitablestopper. Under some conditions it may remain open and serve as a vent.The top of one of the sections is also provided with a handle p, bymeans of which the pan may be manipulated with convenience when, filledwith sand, it is being applied to the hat or removed therefrom.

The top of the pan is also provided at or near its periphery with four(more or less) eyes g to receive chains, wires, or other suitableconnection adapted to extend over a pulleyor pulleys, whereby the panmay be drawn up and away from the hat with convenience. At the lowerouter edges of the ECO sections the same are provided with flanges orstays 0", adapted to hold the flexible cloth or bag in place over theopen bottom of the pan when the edges of the said cloth or bag are tiedaround the periphery of the said pan. The cloth or bag 3 is of a sizesufficient to spread across the open bottom of the pan with more or lesslooseness and at its edges extend over the stays r. so as to be properlytied by means of a cord.

It will be obvious upon examination of Figs. 2 and 3 that the pan at itsbottom edges presents in side elevation deep opposite recesses betweenthe wide downwardly-extending cheeks m.

The flexible bag being stretched across the open mouth at the bottom ofthe pan assumes somewhat of the same shape in side elevation. The sandbeing inserted through the feed-opening 0 or otherwise, and the said panbeing elevated by means of the wires or chains or similar connections(not shown,) the draft upon the opposite sides of the pan causes thesections to assume the positions of Fig. 2, in which case the cheeks ofthe sections lie approximately vertical. Upon lowering the pan intoengagement with the hat resting upon the flange a the bag at the centerof the pan first engages the hat lying beneath the said center in aboutthe vertical plane of the hinge-pins. The weight of the sand lying atthe inside of the cheeks of the pan causes said cheeks to automaticallydraw together to the position shown in outline in Fig. 2, and thus theheated sand is caused to press beneath the inwardly-curved hat-brim, sothat the said brim is not only pressed downward by the weight of thesand and laterally inward toward the center of the hat, but to someextent upward beneath the said inwardly-turned edges of the hat-brim,and because of this upward pressure the hat-brim is completely shaped bythe sand, and consequently further shaping by means of heated irons orthe like is rendered unnecessary.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is 1.Theimproved shaping-pan for hats, comprising pivotal sections providedat the top with a feed-opening and being open at the bottom, and a bagfastened across the bottom of said pan, said bottom being provided atopposite sides with broad cheeks adapted to drop by gravity and causethe bag to pass beneath a hat-brim lying upon a hat-flange.

2. The improved shaping-pan for hats herein described, comprisingpivotal sections having comparatively narrow overlapping ears and widecheeks and open bottoms, abag extending across the bottom of saidsections from cheek to cheek thereof, and a filling of sand the weightof which lying adjacent to said cheeks is adapted to cause said sectionsto turn on their connecting pivots when the center of the bag with thesand therein engages the top of a hat-flange or the hat thereon, wherebythe cheeks are caused to draw together and lie beneath the curvedhat-brim, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination with the sections of the shaping-pan having an openbottom, of a bag closing the open bottom of said pan, ahandle at the topof said pan, and means for preventing the said sand from escaping at thetop of said pan, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination of the sections comprising semicircular top platesand side plates fastened at the convex edges of said semicircularplates, one of said top plates extending underneath the other of saidtop plates, the underlying extension of the top plate being curvedconcentric or approximately concentric with the pivotal pins, wherebythe said sections may turn on said pins, without forming an opening inthe top plates, substantially as set forth.

5. The combination with the semicircular top plates, of side platessecured to the convex edges thereof, the said side plates forming attheir opposite overlapping extremities narrow ears through which pivotalpins extend, and having between said narrow pivotal ears, wide cheeks,the said cheeks lying beneath the pan, and a bag fastened over the openbottom of the pan, substantially as set forth.

6. A hat-shaping pan comprising hinged sections open at the bottom andproviding side walls to retain sand, and a flexible bag closing saidopen bottom and adapted to support the sand.

7. A hat-shaping pan having hinged sections open at the bottom andproviding side walls to retain sand, a bag extending across said openbottom, and means for securing the margins of said bag to said sectionsto prevent the escape of sand.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set myhand this27th day of September, 1902.

WILLIS GLAZIER. WVitnesses:

CHARLES H. PELL, C. B. PITNEY.

